The African Network for Evidence to Action in Disability
Reflecting on past newsletter from us at AfriNEAD, it is amazing to read about the activities we engage in and accomplish, based on the fact that this office is not run on a full time basis. So although our aim is the produce a quarterly newsletter every year, our time is taken up with simple focusing on the events of AfriNEAD. This time the biggest event in our minds is how to host the 6th AfriNEAD conference in Cape Town in 2020. The intention was that AfriNEAD will host 2 bi-annual conferences in South Africa and 3 tri-annual conference in countries outside South Africa. Our Colleagues from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Ghana did us proud. A special issue of the African Journal on Disability –AJOD – was tabled from the 3rd AfriNEAD conference in Zimbabwe in 2011. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology emerged from the 5th AfriNEAD conference in 2017 with GhaNEAD which intend to ensure at grass root levels that the work done by AfriNEAD is emulated. A special issue with the AJOD, from this conference is towards completion.
